Deputy attorney general under John Kennedy and attorney general under
Lyndon Johnson, Katzenbach was active in several groundbreaking Justice
Department civil rights initiatives, including the desegregation of the
University of Mississippi in 1962, the desegregation of the University
of Alabama in 1963, and the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. [Read
an interview with Katzenbach, click here.]

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Michael Witte ’66

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